If you’ve experienced sciatica before, you know the stubborn pain can ruin your whole week. Sciatica is a type of back pain that occurs when there’s pressure on the sciatic nerve, which extends from ...

We often hear the term “pinched nerve” in reference to someone suffering from leg pain or back pain. A more appropriate term is “sciatica,” since this term refers to the symptoms of a lumbar nerve ...

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Andrew Szczerba will do on Saturday what he has done on hundreds of Saturdays during his life. He’ll play a football game. He’ll run and block and try to fend off angry, bull-rushing defensive linemen ...

Leg pain, especially in the thigh or calf, is often caused by a pinched nerve in your back. Many people call any pain in the leg “sciatica,” but actually sciatica is only one specific type of leg pain ...

A pinched nerve can cause the radiating pain that you have described. It can also result in a dull ache in the pelvis and buttocks, numbness or sharp tingling that extends down the hip, muscle ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Institute for Nerve Medicine in Los Angeles, have found that new nerve imaging technology called Magnetic ...

Whenever you hear the word “pinch,” you know it’s not going to be good. When you were a kid, getting a pinch sucked, and giving one was basically asking for timeout. And who hasn’t been told they ...

Sciatica, a condition of the lumbar spine, is often caused by pinching of the sciatic nerve. Left untreated, it can lead to sciatic nerve damage, but sciatica and its associated symptoms can be ...

Dr. Rob Riley joins us each week from the South Bend Clinic. Here are his responses from August 20th. Lena: I would like to know with all the medical advances, why can’t they fix the sciatic nerve? I ...

This week we are going to discuss the difference between sciatica and pseudo sciatica and the way to tell what you have. Pseudo sciatica is a false sciatica that is derived from compression of the ...

You know the feeling all too well. After sitting for a period of time, you go to get up and you feel a deep, boring, aching sensation in the front of your thigh that extends to your knee. Sometimes ...